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This week readers are commenting on Tadao Ando's unveiled plans for a performing arts centre in the United Arab Emirates and debating the 10th MPavilion in Melbourne, Australia, also designed by the Japanese architect. Read on for more… |
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"Far better than any white cube coming out right now"Readers love the diamond-shaped windows and cylindrical brick form of The Hoxton Mule, a playschool and apartment designed by London practice Sam Jacob Studio. |
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"Is it really an environmentally conscious alternative?" |
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"What happened to Tadao Ando?"Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled the design for a concrete, cylindrical performing arts centre in Sharjah that will overlook a sunken water feature. Readers reacted. |
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"Like a backpack on a tuxedo" |
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"If you know anything about concrete, you know this is extraordinary"Readers are split over Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando's aluminium-disc-topped pavilion, which is the 10th MPavilion on display in Melbourne, Australia. |
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"What we have already designed and built is a disaster"The increasing need to protect cities from environmental hazards is a chance to transform communities for the better, says Rebuild By Design managing director Amy Chester in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Commenters shared their thoughts. |
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"I'm at a loss for words – just brilliant"Reclaimed wood fashioned into panels covers this small cafe designed by CUP Scale Studio in the centre of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. Readers were unanimous in their praise. |
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"I wish the design allowed for a wall to be used as a backboard"An empty site can be transformed into a basketball court using this mobile kit designed by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Eric Treillard. Commenters joined the debate. |
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"I'm still amazed at how few brands have sustainability information on their sites"Readers discussed retailer Finnish Design Shop launch of a tool to individually assess and rate the sustainability of more than 20,000 design products featured on its online store. |
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"The amount of extra concrete to keep peoples' cars safe is unjustifiable"Commenters were left incredulous over Danish studio Tredje Natur's proposal for cities to build floating car parks on top of flood-preventing reservoirs – part of our Designing for Disaster series. |
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"Like Peter Barber on LSD" |
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"No one thought to call it the Spruce Bringsteen Museum?"Commenters joked about US studio CookFox Architects's design for a museum with a mass timber structure, which will be dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen and located in New Jersey. |
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